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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: The Da-Vinci Audio push ups. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
The Swiss company Da-Vinci Audio that use to make very interesting LC phonocorrector it looks like trying to hit the jackpot with TT design. I look at all the TT that are being made I never stop wondering what the ultimate from my point of view shape...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: How about the Fountain Turntable? by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dynamic viscose stabilization of turntable’s platter. in Analog Playback  15 Replies 
LBJ, I do not think that the idea of Water Tower is good as we would need to change the TT speed. Also, I think the verso is necessary for us as liquid has different viscosity with temperature and we need somehow to compensate it. What I found inspi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Connections? by steverino on 2013-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"] Romy the Cat wrote:Epigraph"…just buy a used Micro Seiki and don’t worry about turntables anymore; built like a tank and sounds better than TTs costing over 30K USD.” Mr. Ikeda, of Ikeda / Fidelity Research The Main bitching It ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Continuum turntable. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
Mike at AudioFederation.com posted in his blog something that I feel should be expended upon. http://audiofederation.com/blog/archives/52 I meant to reply there but I never was able to find out how his login is working, so I decided to dump my comm...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Re: Driving a TT with ... shoelace. by TonyB on 2006-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A longer turntable belt. in Analog Playback  60 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do not know, I always have difficulties to talk with audio people about those subjects. They seems to have very strong and very definitive position how different driving tool affect sound of their timbales. The most ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: People, I warn you: grow up! by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
[quote user="angeloitacare"] hi mikecongratulations for your site, it is very nice, specially the showreports, the pics are great. i heard in july a avalon speaker in italy, with these ceramic drivers, they sound horrible. no dept and image at all....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #168: "Correcting" Audio Problems by Paul S on 2022-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Interesting that problems Harley isolated in this case (pits and lands; turntable) were physical/mechanical, utimately "analog", in that sense. I'm glad someone has stayed after it, but not sure how to put this revelation to work to get better Music ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: Re: Troughline Tuner by guy sergeant on 2005-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Of course I haven't compared it with the Sansui, which appears to be a very serious machine but the Leak sounds more natural to me than the other highly regarded tuners available over here (in the UK) such as the various Naim models, the Audiola...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: And, what do you expect to hear? by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro Seiki SZ-1T in Analog Playback  2 Replies 
Alex, what do you expect to hear with the questions like this? If you intend to use it then you would have much more specific interest, the interest that would demonstrate your own thinking about this turntable.  If you do not have intention t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: The TW-Acoustic turntable. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Actually it is surprisingly interesting. It is a German company and they do a fascinating and it appears to be appealing turntable http://www.soundscapehifi.com/tw-acustic-raven-ac-pics1.htm (you can click the images to enlarge them) I like the con...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: Interesting because presumed +/- simple (for a change)? by Paul S on 2008-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Tough to find anything without a gimmick or three these days, for sure.Well, I wonder about a few things, like the 1/8" "round" drive "belt", the copper surface (why copper, other than exclusivity?), and I also wonder if there is a provision on eithe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Mantis vs Jubilee by drdna on 2008-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
[quote user="starboy"]In the thread I wrote there is another Mantis owner Bauzace50 (a noted gentleman to myself in terms of transducers) who had a Jubilee as his reference and that with no second thought hit the Bay.[/quote]Did y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Aqua turntable by guy sergeant on 2008-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dynamic viscose stabilization of turntable’s platter. in Analog Playback  15 Replies 
I never did see or hear one of these but I'd be interested to know how constant they were able to make it. "...this was a curious turntable with a viscous clutch-like transmission: a layer of water and glycerine between platter and a fanned motor tr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Gives the Impression by Paul S on 2021-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jonathan Weiss Introduces New High-End TT! in Audio News  11 Replies 
Jarek, perhaps we should continue the discussion of cast iron for TTs in the Ultimate Turntable thread, something like that. In this case, I agree with Romy, this guy is very much about image and impression, and it appears he knows how to develop and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Why I like the like the location #1 by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="JJ Triode"]Romy,How about putting bass tower #2 directly behind#1, but facing the opposite direction from #1?  This would keep #2 away from the turntable, yield a symmetrical setup and enable #2 to energize the hot spot around your chair...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: The Audio Tekne's 4-ways by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Serge"] The sound I like most was the one at Audio Tekne's room. I never listened to them before. The speakers were very ugly. I'd say extremely ugly. And 4-way, drive units arranged as if by chance. The big ugly turntable cost 53000 eur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #203: Engineering Solutions by Paul S on 2019-05-18 
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The way the "spec sheets" on high end items read tell something about the approach taken by the "manufacturer". Often they approach designing something difficult, like a turntable, as a series of obstacles to be overcome, so the project winds up firs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: My first collision with decent audio source by dedobot on 2018-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The remarkable moments in Audio. in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
When I was 12-13, and heard for a first time  floorstanders connected to system consisted of separated devices. I grew up behind the Iron Certain where sound and music choices was extremely limited . My dad had HITACHI TRK radio-cassetophone, it was ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1010: Baloon by N-set on 2012-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"]This goes back to the discussion a few weeks ago of what these components' power supplies are "expecting" to see. They were built and tested with certain kinds of AC waveforms as input. If you give it something it was never te...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1075: PP+ issue by SOS on 2013-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
First as stated before, when I 1st received the unit no hum issue it was after it was sent back twice that it came about. 2nd if I use my other conditioner, a Purist Audio Design all is dead quite. The humming out of the speakers stops if you plug th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1085: Response to Mr. Cat by SOS on 2013-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
First the other customers of PP that are having a hum problem are NOT my customers and use different components than I. Second it is not just the turntable motor but also get the hum from the phono stage when plugged in. Again plugging these componen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #105: What you seem to miss Romy ... by dkarmeli on 2013-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
is that the operating word is "Turntable Collection". The Air Force One (hate the name!) is the culmination of the great Micro Seiki's coming full circle and once again starting a new chapter in high end analog reproduction, this completes my MS COLL...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Who the hell is this internet trash? by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Who the hell is this internet trash? in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
I got email today with a link to a thread at A’gon: “Fremer's review of the Anna cartridge” and to an interesting post from Dougdeacon: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1365811842&openflup&65&4#65The fan part in all of it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: List of Idiocies by Serge on 2011-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rim drive? in Analog Playback  20 Replies 
Oh, yes. there was a plenty of absolutely stupid ideas implemented and copied incessantly in turntable manufacturing.The gross one is of course the magnetic suspension to ease up the work of the platter bearing. Not mentioning that it is a very unlin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: 24/96 vs. lp by mem916 on 2011-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
So I gave a serious listen to the vinyl source vs. the digital playback to try to get some idea of how much damage the AtoD -> DtoA does.  I matched the volume levels as well as I could using my ancient radio shack SPL meter.  To me it seems t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: VTA VTF balance by berlinta on 2010-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Schroder Tonearms in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
Hello Romy,I should have made myself more clear about the paragraph you quoted. Typical situations:a. The arm is installed on a deck that accomodates more than one arm. The listener, if lucky, has two(for all intents and purposes) identical cartridge...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Is it a drag? by mats on 2008-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Nice to read your thoughts on this subject Paul.  My interest at this point is to explore the issue of speed stability in the face of complex music, and its possible effect on congested sound.  Is there a relationship?  I suspect there...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Luck of the draw by Joe Roberts on 2009-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Wait...are you saying that FOUR people who have been to Camerata wrote you offline (within two days!) and they neglected to enter into this relevant discussion?Strange! H'mmm? If I were the guy mentioned above, I would have been in here screa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Macondo Loudspeaker in munich show by Amir on 2023-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
I have thought many times about trying to have an Audio System like Macondo Horn Loudspeaker System and if I could get good result then I will demo it in munich high end show.this is a big project for me because I am not expert and I have no DIY expe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Stone Age to Iron Age Adaptation by Paul S on 2023-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy the Cat's Audio recommendation: the biggest bang fo... in Audio For Dummies ™  46 Replies 
Thanks, Bill. The system you describe sounds like my brother''s old home theater surround sound, which did a nice job with 5.1 DVDs, for concerts, opera, and musical theater. I presently use only a turntable or CD/DAC source with my hi-fi, in stereo ...
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